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Set up the Oracle connection type with SSRS and a Power BI report server

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Applies to: SQL Server 2016 (13.x) Reporting Services and later  Power BI Report Builder  Power BI Report Server

To use data from an Oracle database in your report, you must have a dataset based on a report data source of type Oracle. This built-in data source type uses the Oracle Data Provider directly and requires an Oracle client software component. This article explains how to download and install drivers for Reporting Services, Power BI Report Server, Report Builder, and Power BI Desktop.

Use the information in this article to build a data source. For step-by-step instructions, see Add and verify a data connection (Report Builder and SSRS).

Important

The following commands that use Oracle's OraProvCfg.exe tool to register Oracle's Managed and Unmanaged ODP.NET drivers are provided as examples for use with the above Microsoft products. For the configuration of the ODP.NET drivers specific to your environment, you might need to contact Oracle support or reference Oracle's documentation for Configuring Oracle Data Provider for .NET.

64-bit drivers for the report servers

On the Oracle download site, install the Oracle 64-bit ODAC Oracle Universal Installer (OUI). You only need the following steps for Oracle Data Access Components (ODAC) drivers 12.2 and later. Otherwise, they install by default to a non-machine-wide configuration for a new Oracle home installation.

Prerequisite: Install the ODAC 18.x files to the c:\oracle64 folder.

Paginated (RDL) reports use Managed ODP.NET

Power BI Report Server and SQL Server Reporting Services 2016 and later all use Managed ODP.NET for paginated (RDL) reports.

Register Managed ODP.NET:

  1. Register ODP.NET Managed Client to the Global Assembly Cache (GAC):

    C:\oracle64\product\18.0.0\client_1\odp.net\bin\4\OraProvCfg.exe /action:gac /providerpath:C:\oracle64\product\18.0.0\client_1\odp.net\managed\common\Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.dll

  2. Add ODP.NET Managed Client entries to machine.config:

    C:\oracle64\product\18.0.0\client_1\odp.net\bin\4\OraProvCfg.exe /action:config /force /product:odpm /frameworkversion:v4.0.30319 /providerpath:C:\oracle64\product\18.0.0\client_1\odp.net\managed\common\Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.dll

Power BI reports use Unmanaged ODP.NET

Power BI Report Server uses Unmanaged ODP.NET for Power BI reports.

Register Unmanaged ODP.NET:

  1. Register ODP.NET Unmanaged Client to GAC:

    C:\oracle64\product\18.0.0\client_1\odp.net\bin\4\OraProvCfg.exe /action:gac /providerpath:C:\oracle64\product\18.0.0\client_1\odp.net\bin\4\Oracle.DataAccess.dll

  2. Add ODP.NET Unmanaged Client entries to machine.config:

    C:\oracle64\product\18.0.0\client_1\odp.net\bin\4\OraProvCfg.exe /action:config /force /product:odp /frameworkversion:v4.0.30319 /providerpath:C:\oracle64\product\18.0.0\client_1\odp.net\bin\4\Oracle.DataAccess.dll

32-bit drivers for Microsoft Report Builder

Microsoft Report Builder uses Managed ODP.NET for authoring paginated (RDL) reports. You only need the following steps for Oracle ODAC drivers 12.2 and later. Otherwise, they install by default to a non-machine-wide configuration for a new Oracle home installation.

Prerequisite: Install the ODAC 18.x files to the c:\oracle32 folder where Microsoft Report Builder is installed.

Register Managed ODP.NET:

  1. Install the Oracle "ODAC with Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio - OUI" (32-bit) on the Oracle download site.

  2. Register ODP.NET Managed Client to GAC:

    C:\oracle32\product\18.0.0\client_1\odp.net\bin\4\OraProvCfg.exe /action:gac /providerpath:C:\oracle32\product\18.0.0\client_1\odp.net\managed\common\Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.dll

  3. Add ODP.NET Managed Client entries to machine.config:

    C:\oracle32\product\18.0.0\client_1\odp.net\bin\4\OraProvCfg.exe /action:config /force /product:odpm /frameworkversion:v4.0.30319 /providerpath:C:\oracle32\product\18.0.0\client_1\odp.net\managed\common\Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.dll

64-bit drivers for Power BI Report Builder

Note

The following instructions apply to Power BI Report Builder version 15.7.01678.0001 and later. For versions before 15.7.01678.0001, follow the 32-bit drivers for Microsoft Report Builder instructions.

Power BI Report Builder uses Managed ODP.NET for authoring paginated (RDL) reports. You only need the following steps for Oracle ODAC drivers 12.2 and later. Otherwise, they install by default to a non-machine-wide configuration for a new Oracle home installation.

Prerequisite: Install the ODAC 18.x files to the c:\oracle64 folder where Power BI Report Builder is installed.

Register Managed ODP.NET:

  1. Install the Oracle 64-bit ODAC Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) on the Oracle download site.

  2. Register ODP.NET Managed Client to GAC:

    C:\oracle64\product\18.0.0\client_1\odp.net\bin\4\OraProvCfg.exe /action:gac /providerpath:C:\oracle64\product\18.0.0\client_1\odp.net\managed\common\Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.dll

  3. Add ODP.NET Managed Client entries to machine.config:

    C:\oracle64\product\18.0.0\client_1\odp.net\bin\4\OraProvCfg.exe /action:config /force /product:odpm /frameworkversion:v4.0.30319 /providerpath:C:\oracle64\product\18.0.0\client_1\odp.net\managed\common\Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.dll

64-bit and 32-bit drivers for Power BI Desktop

Power BI Desktop uses Unmanaged ODP.NET for authoring Power BI reports. You only need the following steps for Oracle ODAC drivers 12.2 and later. Otherwise, they install by default to a non-machine-wide configuration for a new Oracle home installation.

Prerequisite: Install the ODAC 18.x files to the c:\oracle64 folder for 64-bit Power BI Desktop or the c:\oracle32 folder for 32-bit Power BI Desktop.

Register Unmanaged ODP.NET:

64-bit Power BI Desktop

  1. Install the Oracle 64-bit ODAC Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) on the Oracle download site.

  2. Register ODP.NET Unmanaged Client to GAC:

    C:\oracle64\product\18.0.0\client_1\odp.net\bin\4\OraProvCfg.exe /action:gac /providerpath:C:\oracle64\product\18.0.0\client_1\odp.net\bin\4\Oracle.DataAccess.dll

  3. Add ODP.NET Unmanaged Client entries to machine.config:

    C:\oracle64\product\18.0.0\client_1\odp.net\bin\4\OraProvCfg.exe /action:config /force /product:odp /frameworkversion:v4.0.30319 /providerpath:C:\oracle64\product\18.0.0\client_1\odp.net\bin\4\Oracle.DataAccess.dll

32-bit Power BI Desktop

  1. Install the Oracle "ODAC with Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio - OUI" (32-bit) on the Oracle download site.

  2. Register ODP.NET Unmanaged Client to GAC:

    C:\oracle32\product\18.0.0\client_1\odp.net\bin\4\OraProvCfg.exe /action:gac /providerpath:C:\oracle32\product\18.0.0\client_1\odp.net\bin\4\Oracle.DataAccess.dll

  3. Add ODP.NET Unmanaged Client entries to machine.config:

    C:\oracle32\product\18.0.0\client_1\odp.net\bin\4\OraProvCfg.exe /action:config /force /product:odp /frameworkversion:v4.0.30319 /providerpath:C:\oracle32\product\18.0.0\client_1\odp.net\bin\4\Oracle.DataAccess.dll

Connection string

Contact your database administrator for connection information and for the credentials to connect to the data source. The following connection string example specifies an Oracle database on the server named Oracle18 by using Unicode. The server name must match the definition in the Tnsnames.ora configuration file as the Oracle server instance name:

Data Source="Oracle18"; Unicode="True"

For more connection string examples, see Create data connection strings in Report Builder.

Credentials

Credentials are required to run queries, preview the report locally, and preview the report from the report server.

After you publish your report, you might need to change the credentials for the data source so that when the report runs on the report server, the permissions to retrieve the data are valid.

For more information, see Specify credential and connection information for report data sources.

Queries

To create a dataset, you can either select a stored procedure from a drop-down list or create a SQL query. To build a query, you must use the text-based query designer. For more information, see Text-based query designer user interface (Report Builder).

You can specify stored procedures that return only one result set. Cursor-based queries aren't supported.

Parameters

If the query includes query variables, corresponding report parameters are automatically generated. This extension supports named parameters. For Oracle version 9 or later, multi-value parameters are supported.

Report parameters are created with default property values that you might need to modify. For example, each report parameter is data type Text. After the report parameters are created, you might have to change default values. For more information, see Paginated report parameters in Report Builder.

Remarks

Before you can connect an Oracle data source, the system administrator must install the version of the .NET Data Provider for Oracle that supports retrieving data from the Oracle database. You must install the data provider on the same computer as Report Builder and also on the report server.

For more information, see the following articles:

Alternate data extensions

You can retrieve data from an Oracle database by using an OLE DB data source type. For more information, see OLE DB connection type (SSRS).

Report models

You can create models based on an Oracle database.

Platform and version information

For more information about platform and version support, see Data sources supported by reporting Services (SSRS).

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